AI apparently has a quirk where it vastly overuses the em dash, allowing a sentence structure that can hop between thoughts.
People are fighting this trend via new punctuation. Thus:
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Iām all for it, but they lost points with me by misinterpreting the rhetorical device of ābegging the question.ā What they meant to say was it raises the question. Begging the question is something completely different.
Iām a pedant, and Iām not ashamed and will not apologize for being one!
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It is, and also now isnāt, since the āwrongā use has gained cultural currency and is now commonly used even in more formal contexts.
Itās enough to make oneās head literally explode.
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You had the procedure related to your liver? Perhaps it didnāt go well. Hoping for the best for you and your loved ones in the near future, which might be touch-and-go and scary. Weāre rooting for you from Boston!
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OH, NO ā Iāve been found out! 
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See what yer did there.
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Sending love and support. Here for you!
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I see what you did there! Bravo!
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Oh, shit. i have so many friends in Cali and also in TN who have to regularly deal with thisā¦ Iām in the ATL area - all we have is (sometimes) some smoke.
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Iām in my young 60s. My hair is still mostly dark, but some parts of my beard are like black, then others are like white as hell.
Weird, I know. My wife likens it to a āreverse skunkā because of the pattern.
Iām considering darkening some parts of my beard hair. Has anyone had any luck using natural colorants like walnut extracts?
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Epic. You may have to zoom in.
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Sorry to say, but very doubtful the natural ones work, or if they do, the effects are temporary. Iām a lot gray which I try to keep colored but have pure white hair at my temples which is a bi**h to take and keep color. In fact going in for more color tomorrow, since I just had it done last week! Oh dear, hope Iām not in trouble for using the āBā word which no one has heard before. Anyway, it fits in this case, and I do hope you get a solution for your beard, whether it be a natural dye or a shave-off, dunno what kind of dude you are. Please let us know if a natural fix works! I canāt be your patent attorney or keeper of IP, but maybe something in marketing lol.
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Note also that walnuts dye skin as easily as hair, and almost permanently. Careful with the application.
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Yes you are absolutely right there - in fact I use walnut oil on some old furniture I have, and itās the best quick corrector Iāve ever found. However, I simply donāt think it would work on stubborn hair.
As a related aside, some family members had pecan and pistachio orchards. The pecans in their outer layer would turn my hands black, when I was visiting and helped process those nuts.
So while I have a healthy respect for natural dyes, it is within the realm of possibility that it could indeed work on hair!
Turmeric is also,a very strong color you donāt want to stain your clothes. But you know that already. I did work with an older MD, PhD type at my last real job - I think he was using turmeric or something on his beard and it was flat weird looking. Iāll stop here for now. Be well.
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Henna is a natural dye that can be used on hair and beards and is a hair conditioner as well. But it turns white hair a bright orange (see online for examples)! Perhaps not the sort of shade youāre after.
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Well heck - I could save myself a crap ton of money if I dye my hair with walnut oil, which is readily available to me. Iāll let you know how it works out!
Iām not ignorant about the uses of plant dyes, beetle skin extracts or whatever to create vibrant colors, I simply donāt know any that work on beard hair. So maybe Iām just cluelessā¦
Walnut hair dye has a greenish cast to it.
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Thanks. I suspected as much. My current batch of boiled (immature) walnuts didnāt get very dark anyway. Iāll get some later in the season when theyāve already started darkening on their own.
OTOH, my batch of Nocino seems to be coming along well. A few months left to go. Never made it before, so hopefully it lives up to the hype.
Thatās okay; I got it covered. 
Yeah, I used to shuck them for my grandparents as a kid. The more keratinized the skin was, the more it stuck. Like calluses and nails took weeks, unless I did a bleach soak. Thatās why I was thinking it might be good for hair, which is pretty much nothing but keratin.
If I do get some nice dark liquid later on here, I plan to make a cornstarch gel of it so hopefully no drips or runs onto skin. [Edit - but from the comments of the two more peeps down below, itās not likely to work well no matter what.]
For now, Iāll just keep looking like a photo negative of a skunk. Or maybe try that āJust For Menā beard goo product.
@medgirl - yeah, āOrange Is The New Blackā would be cool for Halloweāen, but not otherwise.
@jammy - darn. Green would be as bad as orangeā¦
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